Gentoo Binary Kernel Upgrade

In this video, I showed how you can upgrade your binary kernel on Gentoo and I personally always update mine. I did this on bare-metal and not in a virtual machine and I showed you every step that I took. I will not be putting chapters in this video since its only like 12 mins long. Leave me a comment down below if you guys have any questions.

[nobodyknows]

Thank you very much for your video tutorials. They are highly detailed while staying focused on specific topics. Thanks to them, after many years of not using Linux at all, I’ve returned to it—and specifically to Gentoo.

[AdrianoWotan]

Nice video.
My doubt was resolved.
Thanks!

[relaxdmj]

Thank you, very useful!
I have now a few old kernels when I do "ls /boot", should I delete them, and how? Many thanks

[hansdampf]

Nice video, but I feel like we really need some more documentation about the different ways to configure kernels in gentoo.
We got gentoo-kernel-bin but when using gentoo-kernel there is building manually in /usr/src. Or /etc/portage/savedconfig and the savedconfig use flag to automatically configure and build in emerge. But here is also /etc/kernel/config.d.

To build out of tree modules like nvidia drivers automatically after a kernel-update we have the use flag dist-kernel. This is why the rebuild of nvidia was pulled in by portage during that kernel update of yours.

To run grubmkconf automatically after a kernel update we could use /etc/portage/bashrc

[namxx]

Thanks for this the kernel version i need for my Video card is mask. I do the same at this video and i do this with the Mesa too and my pc work.

[was_a]

Very nice video! Thank you for all the work and content, I appreciate it a lot! :D
One question: I noticed the very cool animation you have whenever emerge is calculating the dependencies, instead of the standard spinning bar (| / - \ ...), how it is possible to get it?
Thanks for all! :))

[terrydaktyllus]

I've always compiled my own kernels - once you have a config file that you know works, you just use that as the baseline each time you do an upgrade.

With that said, I have a huge amount of older hardware that I run Gentoo on (anything from a Thinkpad T22 from 2002-ish and a Pentium III CPU through Raspberry Pi Zero to Raspberry Pi 4 (and a few other SBCs) to a multi-CPU Xeon server.

That's one reason I have happily run Gentoo for 20 years now - I always have machines to be doing stuff on meaning that it doesn't matter if another machine is sat in a corner compiling Gentoo for days on end.

I don't like new hardware anyway, I find it boring and it loses value too quickly - my newest PC is a Core i7-6700K with a GTX 1080 in it that I bought cheaply off of a friend when he upgraded recently. I don't play modern "games as a service" because I just don't think they are worth it and Gentoo plays all the pre-2010 games that I do play just fine.

Gentoo is all about optimisation anyway and it's ideal for running on older hardware - I still have a dual core Thinkpad T60 from around 2007 that is a perfectly good daily driver machine, as long as you don't try to watch YT videos on it at more than 720p.

Plus it's fun buying broken junk from online auction sites and turning it into working computers - you can stick your Ryzen CPUs and RTX graphics cards where the sun doesn't shine!

[cammi]

can you share the neofetch config for the two year challenge distro? :D

[cdarmon]

Hello
Is their real-time bin kernels on gentoo?
Cyrille

[mohamedisaac]

i was thinking to try gentoo but this is too much
a simple task that complicated for no reason at all
im sticking with arch